Discovering Computer Science Havill Jessen by Havill, Jessen 9781498786744, 149878674X instant download after payment.

**Discovering Computer Science: Interdisciplinary Problems, Principles, and
Python Programming** introduces computational problem solving as a vehicle of
discovery in a wide variety of disciplines. With a principles-oriented
introduction to computational thinking, the text provides a broader and deeper
introduction to computer science than typical introductory programming books.
Organized around interdisciplinary problem domains, rather than programming
language features, each chapter guides students through increasingly
sophisticated algorithmic and programming techniques. The author uses a spiral
approach to introduce Python language features in increasingly complex
contexts as the book progresses.
The text places programming in the context of fundamental computer science
principles, such as abstraction, efficiency, and algorithmic techniques, and
offers overviews of fundamental topics that are traditionally put off until
later courses.
The book includes thirty well-developed independent projects that encourage
students to explore questions across disciplinary boundaries. Each is
motivated by a problem that students can investigate by developing algorithms
and implementing them as Python programs.
The book's accompanying website — — includes
sample code and data files, pointers for further exploration, errata, and
links to Python language references.
Containing over 600 homework exercises and over 300 integrated reflection
questions, this textbook is appropriate for a first computer science course
for computer science majors, an introductory scientific computing course or,
at a slower pace, any introductory computer science course.
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